Re: [symfony-users] Open an Excel file

2010-01-15 Thread Benoit Montuelle
Hi, I think there may be at least 2 solutions : 1st) - Make for form so user can upload one or more file - Modify that file in php, this point may be though, as php excel writers have generally limited support. You can try something like this http://pear.php.net/package/Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer ,

Re: [symfony-users] Open an Excel file

2010-01-15 Thread DEEPAK BHATIA
Hi I used the I used the sfPhpExcelPlugin-1.0.2.zip from the http://www.symfony-project.org/plugins/sfPhpExcelPlugin/1_0_2 In this I used this both for creating an excel file and downloading the same using PHP. Also I used the same for uploading an excel file and then reading the contents of t

Re: [symfony-users] Open an Excel file

2010-01-15 Thread Daniel Lohse
Why symfony 1.0? :( Why IE6? Don't get me wrong, this has nothing to do with your original question, just — why? Now, your question. Just think about what you're asking. Your app inside the sandbox, namely your browser, shall save to the user's harddrive. What would you say if a website sav

Re: [symfony-users] Open an Excel file

2010-01-15 Thread Gareth McCumskey
With just plain old PHP and even some Javascript built in this is actually very difficult if not impossible to do as PHP was never designed to interact with a users PC. Javascript was however designed to run client-side but does not have direct access to a users hard drive for obvious security r